Politics

State education is free but the cost of uniform, learning materials, school trips, packed lunch and transport sets most parents back at least £39.01 per week per secondary school child and £18.69 per primary child

Workers' leaders today demand a pay hike for carers in a move aimed at filling the 165,000 vacancies blighting the sector and easing gender and race pay gaps

The illness can cause debilitating fatigue, headaches, brain fog and dizziness - but ministers barely ever mention the illness

Managers and ministers need to settle the country's industrial disputes for the sake of everyone, says Eva Simpson

The cost of Boris Johnson's legal defence has gone up for a second time since last August, with calls mounting for Rishi Sunak to intervene and make the ex-PM foot the bill himself

Union leaders warned people would be working 'excessive hours' if vital EU rules are scrapped and called the move the 'latest attack' on working people's rights by the Tories

Former First Sea Lord Admiral Lord West blasted the Government over the dwindling number of surface warships as he urged ministers to order more vessels

The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) has announced staff at 106 government departments today voted ‘Yes’ for industrial action lasting until November

Charity Freedom from Torture fixed a mocked-up blue plaque declaring that the Home Secretary had 'closed the door' on refugees as her Illegal Migration Bill comes under fire in the House of Lords

Charities said the bleak milestone showed the homelessness system was 'on its knees' while Labour described it as a 'moment of shame' for the Tories

Some young voters were stopped from taking part in last week's local elections because their proof-of-age cards were not accepted, it is claimed

Downing Street repeatedly declined to say whether the Tories would strike deals with the DUP or fringe parties like Nigel Farage's Reform and Reclaim, founded by actor turned anti-woke crusader Laurence Fox

In a fiery exchange at PMQs, Keir Starmer blasted the Government for failing to support Brits as he said we have a PM 'who boasts he's never had a working class friend'

After Prime Minister Rishi Sunak watered down key climate commitments in a major U-turn which plunged the UK's net zero target by 2050 into chaos, do you think it's time we had a government which kept its promises?

Archbishop Justin Welby - fresh from his central role at King Charles's Coronation on Satruday - lashed out at Suella Braverman's draconian Illegal Migration Bill, which has been branded a "gimmick" and a "con" by critics

Critics said expelled Tory Andrew Bridgen's 'misinformation' has no place in the Commons and demanded he submit to a by-election in his North West Leicestershire seat

Justin Welby is set to join criticism of Suella Braverman's plan to deport new arrivals to Rwanda as proposed immigration legislation is debated in the House of Lords today

The longer semi-trailers will mean vehicles can carry more goods and therefore take fewer journeys in a bid to boost the economy and cut emissions, the Department for Transport has announced

A scathing report published today says nearly one in five people who work in the food industry rely on foodbanks, and demanded that an incoming Labour Government addresses rising inequality

It symbolises the complete failure of the UK Conservative Government to halt small boat crossings across the English Channel despite Rishi Sunak insisting it's a priority

The disaster PM of 49 days should feel embarrassment, but there she was on the front row, says Polly Hudson

When people are struggling to live we must do more to help them than offer them entertainment in the form of pageantry

Labour peer Lord Ray Collins of Highbury told the House of Lords that the Minimum Services Bill will be revoked when Labour comes to power "fairly shortly"

Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting described the latest Tory failure as another 'broken promise', adding: 'So much for Rishi Sunak's relaunch.'

The Prime Minister of Caribbean nation St Vincent and the Grenadines suggested British politicians would not 'permit' the King to apologise for the wrongs of slavery